Written by

Bill Goodykoontz
| Gannett Chief Film Critic

Director Gore Verbinski's film is at once a throwback to old-timey cowboy movies and a big-budget exercise in overkill.

It's also nearly 2½ hours long, yet even with that running time can't really find the tone it wants to establish, going back and forth from deadly serious (and violent) action to comic relief and back again. ...